Wartime magazine issue 85

Wartime Magazine (Summer 2019) - Aftermath of war

Featured articles:

• Feeding the troops on victory by Aaron Pegram. More than half of Australia's Victoria Crosses were awarded on the Western Front.
• The art of war by Mark Whitmore. Landscape artist Arthur Streeton had a keen eye for painting technology and its use in war.
• Bringing the boys home by Meleah Hampton. The end of the First World War meant that a huge and complicated task had to begin.
• Casualties of war by Craig Tibbits. Medical legacies could persist for a lifetime.
• William Murray and the Coniston Massacre by Thomas James Rogers. A returned soldier's frontier crimes.
• "Conditions rotten" by Lachlan Grant and Garth O'Connell. Stories of Indigenous Australian prisoners in the Second World War are emerging.
• Meet Walter Steilberg by Philippa Scarlett. The man who never gave up.
• Down the Buin Road by Karl James. Sweat, mud, fatigue, stress, fear, and constant patrolling: such was the Australian infantrymen's war on Bougainville in 1945.
• Coastal sacrifice by David Sutton. Fatalities in Coastal Command during the Second World War.
• Australians in Coastal Command by Jessica Urwin. The Luftwaffe were not the only enemy.
• Plus regular features including Reflections, Collection Insights, In the Picture, and The Last Post.

 

Details: Magazine, published 2019.

Format: Soft cover, illustrations, 72 pages.

Dimensions: 29.7 cm (h) x 20.2 cm (w) 0.5 cm (d) / 210 grams.